In the night room / by 225414 Straub, Peter

Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities by R L Wilby, R Kasei, K V Gough, E F Amankwaa, M Abarike, N J Anderson, S N A Codjoe, P Griffiths, C Kaba, K Abdullah, S Kayaga, T Matthews, P Mensah, C Murphy, P W K Yankson

“…Building materials also strongly moderate indoor temperatures but in opposing ways: rooms with traditional mud walls and thatch roofs are on average 4.5 °C cooler than rooms in concrete block houses with uninsulated metal roofs during the day but are 1.5 °C warmer at night; rooms with ceiling insulation are on average 6.9 °C cooler in the day but 1.4 °C warmer at night. …”
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